COF - Capital One Financial Corporation
| Previous Close | 102.64 |
| Open | 102.13 |
| Bid | 102.90 x 900 |
| Ask | 115.50 x 800 |
| Day's Range | 101.81 - 103.28 |
| 52 Week Range | 78.45 - 107.59 |
| Volume | 1,812,770 |
| Avg. Volume | 2,031,436 |
| Market Cap | 47.043B |
| Beta (5Y Monthly) | 1.24 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 9.33 |
| EPS (TTM) | 11.05 |
| Earnings Date | Apr 22, 2020 - Apr 26, 2020 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 1.60 (1.56%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Feb 06, 2020 |
| 1y Target Est | 116.82 |
- Yahoo Finance Video
CreditCards.com ranks the best cards of 2020
CreditCards.com is out with a new breakdown that matches how Americans spend according to labor statistics data, with some cards offering nice rewards bonuses. Yahoo Finance's Zack Guzman and Brian Cheung break it down with Netflix Co-founder and former CEO Marc Randolph.
- American City Business Journals
Capital One to brand new Dulles airport lounge. And this space will have everything.
The concessionaire will cough up more than $30 million over 10 years to build and operate the lounge.
- MarketWatch
Hackers are ramping up attacks on retirement accounts — how to keep yourself safe
The thought of losing your life savings to hackers can be terrifying — and it’s why two of Houston financial adviser Michelle Gessner’s clients didn’t want to consolidate their retirement assets, even if the move would be financially savvy. The couple had already been the target of identity theft in the past, then with their credit cards, and they were afraid that if they rolled all their money together, they’d be “sitting ducks” at risk of losing their entire nest egg. “The question is real and understandable,” Gessner said.
- Reuters
Courts are the next front in Trump's battle over presidential powers
In federal court and on the Senate floor, lawyers for President Donald Trump have argued that the U.S. Constitution confers on a president broad protection from scrutiny by Congress, prosecutors and the judiciary for his actions. This expansive view of presidential powers may have helped the Republican president win acquittal on Wednesday in his Senate impeachment trial, but a raft of court rulings due in the coming weeks and months could have an even more profound impact on setting the parameters for a president's authority. Three cases will be argued before the Supreme Court on March 31 focusing on Trump's contention that a House of Representatives committee and a New York City prosecutor are powerless to enforce subpoenas to obtain his financial records.
- Simply Wall St.
Why You Might Be Interested In Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE:COF) For Its Upcoming Dividend
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Credit Acceptance (CACC) Q4 Earnings & Revenues Lag, Costs Up
Higher credit cost and increase in operating expenses hurt Credit Acceptance's (CACC) Q4 earnings, while rise in revenues offers some support.
- PR Newswire
Capital One Announces Full Redemption of Depositary Shares Representing Interests in Its Series B Preferred Stock
Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) today announced that it will redeem all outstanding shares of its Fixed Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B, $0.01 par value per share ("Series B Preferred Stock"), and the corresponding depositary shares representing fractional interests in the Series B Preferred Stock ("Series B Depositary Shares").
- PR Newswire
Capital One Announces Quarterly Dividend
Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) today announced a quarterly dividend of $0.40 per share payable February 21, 2020, to stockholders of record as of February 10, 2020. The company has announced dividends on its common stock every quarter since it became an independent company on February 28, 1995. Dividends declared by the company are eligible for direct reinvestment in the company's common stock under its Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan. For additional Plan information, stockholders should contact Computershare Trust Company, N.A., at 1-888-985-2057 (inside the U.S. and Canada) or 1-781-575-2725 (outside the U.S. and Canada).
- PR Newswire
Big-Picture Thinking May Improve Americans' Financial Decision Making, Mitigate Effects of Stress According to New Study from Capital One and The Decision Lab
Financial decisions are some of the most stressful, complex and impactful choices we make. According to a new study, published by Capital One and The Decision Lab, 77% of participants reported feeling anxious about their financial situation with 58% feeling that finances control their lives. The good news? A change of perspective can have a positive impact on our financial wellbeing.
- Thomson Reuters StreetEvents
Edited Transcript of COF earnings conference call or presentation 21-Jan-20 10:00pm GMT
Q4 2019 Capital One Financial Corp Earnings Call
- Zacks
Bank Stock Roundup: Q4 Earnings in Full Swing; RF, CMA, COF Beat Estimates
Banks post decent Q4 results on the back of improving fee income and modest loan demand, while lower interest rates hurt.
- Yahoo Finance
Target Price Raised on Capital One Financial
Capital One Financial (COF) shares jumped over 4% on January 22 following strong 4Q earnings of $2.49 per share, well above the $2.28 consensus. Average loans grew 8% in 4Q19, up from 4% in 3Q19. The net interest margin also expanded on a better lending mix.
- American City Business Journals
Capital One hopes to swap planned hotel for more office space on Tysons campus
Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) already plans to build millions of square feet of office space at its Tysons headquarters campus — now, it’s looking to add even more. The financial giant submitted revised plans to Fairfax County last week, looking for permission to swap out a planned hotel for about 385,200 square feet of office space on the 26-acre property. Capital One currently has plenty of office space on the campus, which is bounded by the Beltway, state Route 123 and Scotts Crossing Road, not far from the McLean Metro station.
- Bloomberg
Banks Are Handing Out Beefed-Up Credit Lines No One Asked For
(Bloomberg) -- It might sound like a risky strategy at a time when millions of Americans are drowning in debt: keep raising the limit on people’s credit cards, even if they don’t ask.But that’s exactly what big banks have been doing lately to turbocharge their profits, leaving customers with the potential to rack up even bigger monthly bills.For years after the financial crisis, Capital One Financial Corp. resisted that step for customers who looked vulnerable to getting in over their heads. In internal conversations, Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank characterized the restraint as a radical theology, in part because it went beyond post-crisis requirements, according to a person with direct knowledge of the discussions.But then Capital One -- known for its “What’s in Your Wallet?” slogan -- reversed course in 2018, after the bank came under pressure to keep revenue growing. The company’s revenue reached a record last year.The same reversal is playing out across U.S. banking, as more customers get unsolicited access to additional credit, in what’s becoming a new golden age of plastic. The goal: to get consumers to borrow more. The question, just like in the heady 2000s, is how it will end for lenders and borrowers alike. Research shows many consumers turn higher limits into debt. And the greater the debt, the harder it is to dig out.“It’s like putting a sandwich in front of me and I haven’t eaten all day,” said D’Ante Jones, a 27-year-old rapper known as D. Maivia in Houston who was close to hitting the ceiling on his Chase Freedom card when JPMorgan Chase & Co. nearly doubled his spending limit a year ago without consulting him. He soon borrowed much more. “How can I not take a bite out of it?”The banks say the increases are good customer service and that they raise spending limits carefully, discourage reckless borrowing and let customers reverse the increases at any time.Record BorrowingWhatever the case, the immediate result is clear: debt, and lots of it. Outstanding card borrowing has surpassed its pre-crisis peak, reaching a record of $880 billion at the end of September, according to the latest data from the New York Fed’s consumer credit panel. That’s boosting profit at top lenders like Capital One, JPMorgan and Citigroup Inc. a decade after banks cut credit limits without warning during the crunch.“Capital One examines a number of factors before determining whether a customer is eligible for a credit line increase, including reviewing their credit and payment history, debt-to-income ratio and ability to pay,” a spokeswoman said in a statement. She said the company offers customers tools to “help them manage credit wisely.”JPMorgan said it makes sure borrowers don’t owe too much and avoids raising limits for subprime cardholders.“In a very targeted way, we grant credit line increases to creditworthy customers who have demonstrated consistent usage of the card and have shown strong repayment patterns,” a JPMorgan spokeswoman said. Less than 1% of increases are reversed by customers, she said.“I didn’t know there was a way to say no,” said Jones, the Texas rapper. He was making less than $30,000 after taxes when Chase gave him access to an additional $1,500 during the 2018 Christmas season. A lot of people would celebrate access to more money. But he said he was terrified he’d spend more than he could handle. After thieves damaged his car, he tapped the full credit line and could only afford to make the minimum monthly payment.Banned in AustraliaProactive credit line increases, known in the industry as PCLIs, emerged in the 1990s but virtually disappeared after regulators clamped down on the practice following the 2008 financial crisis. But as banks struggled to ramp up lending, PCLIs made a comeback with executives finding more aggressive ways to work within the consumer-protection laws.U.S. issuers boosted credit lines for about 4% of cards in each quarter of 2018, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s most recent data. That’s double the rate in 2012.Subprime and near-prime customers got increases at a higher-than-average pace, according to the agency. That means many of the people getting boosts have blemished or limited histories of paying bills.Consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of the U.S. economy, so the push has wide repercussions. Analysts warn that issuers have chosen a dicey time, late in the credit cycle, to get aggressive about lending. A downturn could mean losses for both banks and customers.Other countries have rules governing PCLIs. U.K. banks agreed not to offer increases to customers in persistent debt. Canada requires borrower consent. Australia bans unsolicited increases altogether.Accruing InterestCredit cards have historically been banks’ highest-yielding loans. With interest rates on credit card balances reaching the highest level in more than two decades last year, U.S. issuers pulled in $179 billion from interest and fees, leading to the most profitable year on record, according to data from payment consultants R.K. Hammer. In addition to Capital One, JPMorgan and Citigroup, top card lenders include American Express Co. and Discover Financial Services.Card companies will likely earn the highest returns in banking in 2020, according to a Dec. 11 Bloomberg Intelligence report.Issuers primarily make money two ways: fees and interest. The biggest portion of fees comes from interchange, which is paid every time a customer uses a card, while interest revenue is higher the more a customer owes. That encourages banks to find people who will carry the largest balance possible without tipping into default.Experian Plc, the credit reporting company, advises banks that unilaterally raising borrowing limits is “a crucial step” in creating revenue.Lawmakers have put some protections in place. The Credit Card Act of 2009 requires banks to consider customers’ “ability to pay” before boosting limits. In practice, that means calculating whether a consumer would be able to make the minimum monthly payment due if the entire credit line were used. With minimum payments typically around 2% of the balance, customers need to be able to cough up roughly $25 a month for every $1,250 in credit. In reality, making payments at that pace takes years, accruing interest that can surpass the amount of the original purchase.Exhausting CreditCapital One was one of the first card issuers to use big data decades ago to target individual customers, pioneering concepts like teaser offers and tailored interest rates, which helped it reel in and manage less-than-perfect borrowers. After the financial crisis, its restraint on upping limits meant forgoing some profit, but that didn’t stop the steady climb of its shares.But after the stock slipped in 2017, executives came under pressure to show they could meet growth targets. They eventually tweaked their models to offer increases to more customers, betting on a quirk in human behavior, according to the person with knowledge of the decision, who asked not to be named discussing the talks. The firm’sanalyses showed people tended to keep their card utilization steady, even after line increases. In other words, someone who used 80% of their credit line before the boost, would typically use the same percentage afterward, generating more revenue.Other researchers had come to similar conclusions. For consumers who carry balances on their cards, “nearly 100% of an increase in credit limits eventually becomes an increase in debts,” according to a working paper by Scott Fulford and Scott Schuh for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. About half of U.S. credit card accounts carry a balance each month, the CFPB said.Capital One said a customer’s ability to pay down debt “has been and continues to be a fundamental consideration in our decisioning process.” The company’s tools for helping customers keep card use in check, it said, include credit lines that start low and increase gradually over time.“Acting in the best interest of our customers is our paramount consideration at every step of our credit decisioning process -- every policy, practice, discussion and service we offer is grounded by that core principle,” it said.Borrowers in DistressSince 2016, credit card debt has been growing at a faster rate than any other type of consumer debt, even student loans, according to a September report by Morgan Stanley strategists. “Household balance sheets may be more stressed than we realize,” they wrote.Even with the U.S. economy humming -- the lowest jobless rate in a half-century, stocks setting record highs and wages inching upward -- the share of credit card borrowers who are at least 90 days past due is expected to reach the highest level this year since 2010, according to a TransUnion study in December. At the same time, the share of seriously late payments in home, auto and unsecured personal loans is projected to fall.Younger borrowers are hurting the most. The number of cardholders between the ages of 18 and 29 at least 90 days behind on payments has reached the highest level in almost 10 years, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.Many cardholders assume they wouldn’t get limit increases if their banks didn’t think they could handle them, said Carey Morewedge, a Boston University marketing professor.“I don’t think consumers have a clear idea of how much they can afford to float on a credit card,” he said. “Consumers may be inferring from the increase that the credit card company believes they’re capable of taking on more debt.”\--With assistance from Jenny Surane, Shahien Nasiripour and Max Abelson.To contact the reporter on this story: Michelle F. Davis in New York at mdavis194@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Bob Ivry, David ScheerFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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The Dow Is Up Because Markets Are Looking Past Virus Fears
FEATURE Bouncing. The three major U.S. stock market indexes rose modestly, bouncing back despite fears about the newly identified virus spreading in China. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 20 points, or 0.
- TheStreet.com
Capital One Shares Are Higher, Analysts Are Mixed After Quarterly Report
Capital One, the McLean, Va., banking company, reported mixed fourth-quarter results, generating mixed opinions on Wall Street.
- Zacks
Capital One (COF) Stock Up 1% on Q4 Earnings & Revenue Beat
Improvement in loan balance and focus on card business support Capital One's (COF) Q4 earnings amid lower interest rates.
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- Benzinga
Capital One Financial's Q4 Earnings Preview
Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF ) announces its next round of earnings this Tuesday, January 21. Here is Benzinga's everything-that-matters guide for the Q4 earnings announcement. Earnings and Revenue ...
- Zacks
Credit Card Strength to Aid Capital One's (COF) Q4 Earnings
Capital One's (COF) focus on credit card operations is likely to have supported Q4 earnings amid lower interest rates.
- Zacks
Bank Stock Roundup: Q4 Earnings Commences, BofA, JPMorgan & Citi Top Estimates
Investor sentiment mixed on banks' Q4 earnings, with the major players displaying top-line strength aided by higher fee income and loan growth, partly muted by margin pressure and elevated expenses.
- American City Business Journals
Share madness: These are the best and worst stock performers of 2019
It would be an understatement to say that pharmaceutical company Novavax Inc. did not have a great 2019. The Gaithersburg company saw its ResVax vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus fall short in yet another late-stage clinical trial — its second such miss in three years — causing its stock price to plummet and, at one point, earning it a delisting threat from Nasdaq. The Food and Drug Administration proceeded to order up another late-stage clinical trial before it would consider ResVax, followed by a similar order by an agency counterpart abroad, the European Medicines Agency.
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Dodge & Cox Is Well Positioned for When Value Has Its Resurgence
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- American City Business Journals
When it comes to business advice, Bob Kipps goes 'Godfather'
The managing director and co-founder of Tysons-based investment bank KippsDeSanto & Co. enters the new year excited for the M&A; market and his new home at Capital One.
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Capital One (COF) Earnings Expected to Grow: What to Know Ahead of Next Week's Release
Capital One (COF) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
